hancellor’s Professor and Gray Merriam Chair in Landscape Ecology, Lenore Fahrig has won the Royal Society of Canada Flavelle Medal. Awarded once every two years, it recognizes outstanding contributions to biological science. Fahrig studies the effects of landscape structure on the abundance, distribution and persistence of organisms – particularly the effects of roads and traffic on wildlife populations. A member of Carleton’s Department of Biology, she previously won the prestigious Gerhard Herzberg Canada Gold Medal for Science and Engineering.